Some legends will be walking the streets, one of the most underrated and exciting vocal talents of her generation will grace a Richmond stage, and the local musicians keep rocking away in the clubs and alleys of our fair city. On this week's SOUND CHECK, EDM...
What an exciting weekend New Years Eve is for edm fans. I’m expecting a major spectacle from Avicii in NYC and can’t wait to catch a re-cap of Lights All Night in Dallas. For any of you that attend anything big, find me on twitter and let’s talk about it. As expected, some producers decided to drop some holiday benevolence on us this past week....
“Wake Up and Start to Dream” is the title of the first song on Hesperia, the wickedly weird and winning debut album from Magdalena Solis – yet it might as well be read as instructions for the listener. By the time the slithering, successive track, “Seven Boys and Seven Girls,” moves from an outrageously memorable, roaring raga toward its eventual...
Avey Tare - Down There (Paw Tracks) This solo album from Animal Collective's Tare would sound a lot different were it instrumental. The electronic sounds are reminiscent of Aphex Twin's later work, but the warm humanity in his voice brings a human element to these songs, changing them dramatically in the process. Strangely pleasant, or pleasantly...
One Way Richmond, the locally-oriented blog that's been keeping tabs on the RVA scene for over two years now, has released their year-end music awards for 2011, and it's a huge post, covering every facet of the local underground scene and then some. Believe me, we at RVA do our best to keep track of everything going on in the city, music-wise,...
Thursday, 12/29 Keller Williams and the Pimps of Joytime @ The National (Kids matinee show 2:30pm) (9pm evening) Thursday, 12/29 A Tribute to Bluegrass on MacArthur featuring The Slack Family, Reckless Abandon, Cook County Bluegrass, Shockoe Bottom Boys @ Shenanigan’s 7pm. Thursday, 12/29 Hanzel Und Gretyl (pictured above), Synthetic Nightmare,...
Childish Gambino - Camp (Glassnote) Childish Gambino isn’t an easy artist to peg. If you called Donald Glover “an actor turned rapper,” you would be completely off. This new full-length is preceded by six releases that span back to 2008. If you were assuming this would be another attempt at a comedy/hip-hop hybrid akin to Lonely Island, that...
Midnight Soulstice is a Richmond Soul and Funk radio show, hosted by Mr. Felty & DJ Pari, featuring guest artists and DJs.The show airs every Friday from 11pm-1am EST. Listen live at 97.3fm or WRIR.org Most of us will never forget where we were when we got the news that the Godfather of Soul James Brown had died on Christmas Day five years ago....
The 21st century brought with it many technological advances, including affordable consumer grade recording gear and exponential access to a global audience via the internet, all of which have led to sweeping changes within the hip-hop game. Luggage is among the names to emerge victorious from the chaos, and rightfully so. After almost three...
Misery – From Where The Sun Never Shines (Inimical Records) So here's something that might excite somebody, somewhere (maybe). Long-dormant Minneapolis crust punk purveyors Misery emerged from a seventeen-year hiatus to offer up a double-album worth of new material, originally released digitally by the band and soon to be released on vinyl....
